Word: loathful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bobbled down Broadway. An admiring crowd had watched their maudlin progress to the front of the R. H. Macy's (department store)?which they were advertising. There the ropes were cut and the Katzenjammers soared off into the sky followed by the vague animals. Herr Inspektor, loath to soar, ogled into office windows until 20 feet had been cut off his traditional whiskers...
...refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...
Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...
Though yesterday morning was to have been the end, so far as the CRIMSON was concerned, for the English 72 matter, letters have kept pouring into the Crimson Building in such numbers that the editor is loath to suppress what has been the most general display of interest on the part of students for some years. Many of the letters received have not seemed to shed any new light on the affairs of English 72 and of the English Department in general, but the two letters printed in an adjacent column are sober enough to warrant consideration...
What are the arguments set forth by the proponents of a greatly enlarged Stadium? And how are they being answered by those who are loath to see any radical alteration of the present amphitheatre...